On 13 Feb 2014 20:25:33 GMT
"Norman" wrote:

Dave Cornwell wrote:

I've just been having an esoteric moment which usually means that I
am about to spout rubbish so feel free to tell me so!

A lot of our extreme records, although fact, tend to relate to the
impact they have had on us. But the weather itself isn't interested
in what effect it has on us. So scientists are racking their brains
deciding whether this purely arbitary period of January and
February exceptional rainfall might be related to climate change.
But what if I were to tell you that last July and August was the
least windy period in the UK for 250 years? Who would know that?
But would it be any less significant in its requirement to be
studied as a possible link to climate change? The thing that has
occured to me during this thought is that is it also surprising
that so many weather records seem to be being broken? As far as I
know there aren't a specific set of records like the Olympic
records. So you can pull any combination of time periods , any of
the many weather variables and any location you like and there will
be a record broken for a greater or lesser chosen time period! The
joys of being retired (fully now!) :-) Dave

I think I see what you're getting at, Dave, but that's the joy of the
subject! There's a lot of similarity between the love of obscure
weather records and the love of obscure cricket records. There's
always someone who can say when the last time was that someone scored
a century at Trent Bridge in a day when batting at number 8 after
having taken 5 for 30 - or some other such obscure record.


Well, that should keep Dave quiet for a while whilst he hunts around
Cricinfo to see if that actually happened. ;-)

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